The Washington Post’s coverage of the exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a law professor shows how gender ideology has utterly broken establishment media.
Hawley and University of California, Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges went viral over an exchange during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Bridges referred to “people with the capacity for pregnancy,” a long-winded way of saying “women,” as Hawley pointed out. But Bridges insisted that “trans men” and “nonbinary people” also can get pregnant. She then accused Hawley of transphobia and violence against transgender people and tried to tie his comments to the transgender suicide rate.
INSANITY: A pro-abortion witness just called Senator @HawleyMO “transphobic” for suggesting that only women can get pregnant. pic.twitter.com/bnlAKIKbMY
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 12, 2022
The Washington Post’s takeaway from this exchange was that “the Missouri Republican refused to acknowledge that some transgender men can get pregnant.” Mariana Alfaro, a “reporter on the breaking political news team,” then wrote that “some experts on gender and reproductive rights” use terms such as “people with a capacity for pregnancy” when talking about abortion because “not only cisgender women have the ability for pregnancy.”
While Alfaro snarks about Hawley “mockingly” replying to Bridges or the fact that Hawley “doubled down” on his questioning, the reality is that she is wrong. Hawley, in fact, did not “refuse to acknowledge that some transgender men can get pregnant,” because Hawley said that women get pregnant. Only women can get pregnant, and “transgender men” are women, no matter how they “identify.” Hawley is obviously correct, and Alfaro is the one who is refusing to acknowledge reality.
This extends to her humoring the idea that “nonbinary people” are also included in this discussion. “Nonbinary” means that someone identifies as neither male nor female, choosing instead to present as some third gender or no gender at all. In other words, it means nothing. Men who claim to be nonbinary are men, and women who claim to be nonbinary are women. Nonbinary people who get pregnant are women, because only women can get pregnant, making Hawley correct once again.
But the Washington Post, like much of establishment media, is now being held hostage to gender ideology, whether the staff promoting it are true believers or are simply trying to avoid the ire of transgender activists. Hawley was obviously correct that men cannot get pregnant and only women can. Any media outlet that can’t admit that, including the Washington Post, cannot be relied on to report accurately on this topic or others.
